Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-12-23
HE REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
OF TIE PEABODY FUND. ~

The REFOHL OF LIE L Ii US IGGO
-. OF TIE PEABODY FUND. ~
we are Indebted to the courtesy of Hon.
A. Il. Z. Stuart for copy Of the report
Of tie tWenty-sixth meeting Of the Trus-
tees Of the Peabody Education Fund
which YVES held in New York on the 9Th
OF October. The list Of the members pub
lished on the first page shows that OF SIX
teen original members Of the Board ap-
pointed ia 1867. all are dead save Robert
G. Winthrop CT Massachusetts. Hamilton
Fish. and VIM. NJ. Evarts Of New York.
and George Peabody Rasseil OF Massa-
chus5etis. Among those dead are such
DISTINGUISHED names as Grant, Farragut
Rives Of Virginia, Bishop McIivalne OF
One, and Aiken OF South Carolina
Among those elected to succeed these,
death has already laken away Gen. Rich
ard Taylor Of Louisiana, Surgeon General
JOS K. Barnes, U. S. A., and mos. Y.
Manning Of La. In his annual ADDRESS
Mr., Winthrop, the Chairman, again press
ed the subject of National aid to educa-
,icn in the Southern States, where there
exists "a peculiar class Of population.
, upon which the full rights and RESPONSE
blities Of free and equal citizens have
been cast by our National government,
without the slightest provision for edu-
eating them TO an understanding OF those
rights and to tbs discharge of those re-
eponsi bilitieg.' Ar. Winthrop adds
The admirable and unanswerable Report of
our worthy associate, Mr.. Stuart Of Virginia, -
which will be remembered to his honor long
after he and we all shall have passed away,
and which WAS presented to Congress. with
the unanimous sanction of our Board, nearly
eight years ago,-has thus far secured no
national aid for this special need OF the South
| do lot propose to dwell on the subject thls
morning, bat I should feel guilty of an un-
pardonable omission were not to allude to 1t
| as one Of pre- eminent interest and imp r.
! tanea.
| The report Of Hon. Samuel A. Green,
! the General Agent pro TEN. OF the Fund,
contains some interesting STATISTICS Of the
WORK of 1867. Of the allotment of the
ia Peabody Scholarships at the Normal
College at Nashville. WHICH are worth
5000 each, fourteen have been assigned to
Virginia The Board during the year ex-
| pended $40 600 divided as follows Scholar
| ships, S22 500; Normal Schools. SIS, 00G,
Institutes. 81 200; Public Schools, $l3 600;
and the Nashville Normal, $4,000. The
sum OF 81, 800 assigned TO Virginia 10 re-
ported by DR.. Buchanan, State Superin-
tenGe8t Of Education, to have been dis
bursed IS folloms Scholarships, So. SEQ;
| Normal Schools, 2,5O0, ard Institutes.
81 coo. The attendance OH the Summer
| Institutes in Virginia was as follows At
| the white fredericksburg, s2G;
| Pearisburg. 256; St.asburg, III; Farm
vile. 12l, and Powellt0n. Sc. At the col
| cred Institutes the attendance was as fol-
-Lynchburg, 1855; Culpeper, 81. and
| WythegilIe, 4S. Il will be observed that
| the entire white attendance at thu Insti-
| tu;es was 098, while al that located in
! Stanton the year before, the attendance
was about 800, CT more than half of all
! OF tie Y hole attendance in the later year.
| Figures t1Gt show that where the town is
| is most accessible. and accommodations
are bes6. % they were at Stanton by
reason OF the use OF the State Institution
for the D. d. & Blind, The attendance
will be larger and the benefit Of the Sum.
uner Institutes be more widely felt by the
| teachers Of the Commonwealth.
The Peabody Trust expires in thirty
5aars from its birth, that is to say on Feb
ruary Ii. 1897, in case tgo thirds Of the
Trustees should at that time deem it eX-
pedient. If they q so decide, and Mr.
Winthropin his address says he can hardly
doubt that they will, the Fund Yiil be dis
tributed among the former slave
holding States-except Maryland, Miss
| ouri and Kentucky, which are Lot in-
cluded ia its benefits by Mr.. Peabody.
During the twenty years since its ineep-
ton, the Fund has distributed ST 500 ,240
among the Southern States, of which
$267 500 was given to Virginia.
AT the meeting Of the Board of which
We are writing, there were present thirteen
! Of the sixteen members, among them such
distinguished names as Chief Justice
Waite Of Ohio, Ez Secretary A. FL. FL.
Stuart Of Virginia, VIM. M. Evarts of New
York, and Rt. Rev. Bishop Whipple (.
Minnesota.